Umbrella-repairing device.



(No Model.)

Patented July I8, i899. W. T. B. McBUNALD.

UIBBELLA REPAIRING DEVICE.

(Application mod Inna 27, 1898.1

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WlTILLlAM T. 'B. MODONALD, OF GRANBY, CANADA.

u M BRELLA-REPAIRING DEVlC'E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,168, dated July 18,1899. Application filed June 27, 1898. Serial No. 684573. (No model-l Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,-WILLI AM THOMPSON BROWN MCDONALD, of Granby, in thecounty of Sheiford and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certainnewand useful Im-? tion thereof adjacent to one end cut away and thepart thereof intervening between said cut-away portion and the end slitand adapted to be opened out to receive the part of a broken main ribcontiguous to the point where the branch or supporting rib is pivoted,if a main rib happens to be broken near where a branch or supporting ribis pivotally connected thereto, while the cut-away portion accommodatessaid supporting-rib and the other endof the tubular section receives theother broken end of the main rib, which is retained therein by aset-screw. For full comprehension, however, of myinvention referencemust be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which like symbols indicate corresponding parts, andwherein- I Figure 1 is an elevation of the inside of an open umbrellahaving several of its ribs and the adjacent end slit, as at 12.

broken and one repaired by my improved device; Fig. 2, anenlarged detailperspective view of my improved device for repairing amain rib whenbroken near where the branch or supporting rib is pivotally connected.

The device for repairing a main rib when broken near where the branch orsupporting rib is pivotally connected thereto consists of a tubularsection 10, having a portion near one end cut away, as at 11, and theportion intervening between said cut-away portion In order to apply thisdevice,the slit end is opened out and made to clasp the unbroken portionof the main rib 13 and the cut-away portion to accommodate the joint 14,while the tubular portion 10 is fitted over the broken end of the rib13, to which it is rigidly connected by the set-screw 15, thus repairingthe broken main rib.

What I claim is as follows;

A device for repairing broken umbrellaribs, consisting of a tubularsection having a portion adjacent to one end thereof cut away andtheportion intervening between said cutaway portion and said end slit, andthe other end thereof provided with a set-screw, substantially asdescribed and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM T. 'B. MCDONALD. Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. MOFEAT, FRED. J. SEARS.

